Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Nothing is black or white.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

A person preaches well that lives well.